A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast... →
Nolan Bushnell
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself... →
Samuel Butler
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
Anthony Hopkins
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.